Senior Environmental Scientist

**Join a global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation.**
As a global firm, GHD continues to expand our market presence across the Middle East. Our Qatar Environmental Team has a stable and growing workload, and we are looking for a highly motivated Senior Environmental Consultant who has experience in undertaking environmental assessments, obtaining regulatory approvals, and providing innovative environmental management solutions for government and private sector clients, specifically for the oil and gas operators in Qatar.

**This existing role will see you involved in**:

- Leading the delivery of projects in environmental impact assessment, planning and management to a high standard, ensuring client satisfaction.
- Planning and executing environmental field works including marine ecological survey, soil, groundwater, air and noise sampling, data management and technical reporting
- Developing business opportunities through establishing client relationships and winning repeat work

**What you will bring to the team**:

- Approximately 8 - 10 years experience in a consulting environment with demonstrated Middle East experience.
- Relevant tertiary qualification e.g. Marine Biology, Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Management or similar.
- Good knowledge of Qatar’s environmental regulations, including permitting requirements and experience in obtaining permits from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) and relevant agencies in Qatar.
- Experience with international environmental assessments to global standards (IFC, WB), and engagement with international stakeholders
- Knowledge of international leading practice, legislation and industry trends.
- Demonstrated track record in the planning, coordination, and management of environmental projects.
- Demonstrated understanding of environmental technical aspects and sound impact evaluation and assessment skills
- Excellent technical writing, communication, and project management skills.
- Must be comfortable working in the field at remote locations, or on active construction site.
- Experience with presenting technical information to clients, stakeholders and/or regulators.
- Proven business development, networking and client relationship management skills.
- The ability to mentor, grow and develop junior team members to continue the successful growth of the team.

**Why GHD?
**Being the best we can be is in our culture.

We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

**Our commitment to you
**Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

**Who we **are
**We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly ‘One GHD’ across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.